Analyst predicts Nintendo triumph, though it also expects PS3 to outsell 360 in 2008
Analyst Daniel Ernst of Hudson Square Research has predicted that following its runaway success in 2007, sale of Nintendo’s Wii will amount to more than those of Xbox 360 and PS3 combined in the next year.
GameDaily reports that the firms predicts global sales for each console in 2008 to equal 23 million Wiis, 12.5 million PS3s and 11.2 million Xbox 360s. The prediction follows sales of 18.5 Wiis, 9.5 million Xbox 360s and 9 million PS3s in the year ending March 2007.
"Microsoft got the jump on the industry with a one-year headstart, but nine months after its the launch, the Nintendo Wii overtook the Xbox 360 on a global basis,” Ernst stated.
“While the PS3, has struggled out of the gate, we note that since last fall, the console has been outselling the Xbox 360 in Europe, and in the first two months of this year has even outsold the Xbox 360 on its home turf, in the U.S.
“With its strong slate of software scheduled for the coming year, we expect a material acceleration for the PS3 this year, but we believe the Wii will sell more than the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined this year.”
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articale like this make us laugh
Before the Wii was released there were so reports about how the Wii was aiming at a different market to the PS3 and 360 and that they shouldn't be compared..blah blah blah.. Now all of a suddent eh Wii's is doing well they are now being compared. Who really cares apart from aiming these news items too fan boys. just buy you rmachine and be happy. if your not ebay it and get a different one.
Re: articale like this make us laugh
It is important because it influences retailer's purchasing decisions. They might be 'different markets' (I'd agree in the sense that the Xbox and PlayStation tend to be consoles for when you sit down and play a serious game, whereas the Wii is more of a party console that you pack away and don't touch till the next party), but the same retailers sell all of the consoles.
Anyway, my point is that it isn't going to matter if the Wii outsells the 360 and PS3 combined. If the 360 especially manages to retain its attach rate ratio over the Wii then the 360 will always have more shelf space than either the PS3 or Wii. The same goes for those two if they manage to increase their attach rate, but at the moment, the 360 has an attach rate of 7 while the PS3 has one of 3 and the Wii of 2.
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